[MacDV] Re: Maxtor 160GB (Blue and White G3)

[illovox at comcast.net]

on 1/7/04 12:56 PM, Peter van der Linden at pvdl at afu.com wrote:

> 
> On Jan 7, 2004, at 10:52 AM, <illovox at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> They slow down then because they are likely fragmented.  Defrag and
>> things
>> get quite fast again.  Now this is a can of worms I know, but it's my
>> belief
>> based on experience
> 
> I invite you to demonstrate your belief with actual benchmark figures
> that can be reproduced.
> You will find that the effect you believe in does not take place in
> MacOS 10.3
> 
> Peter

It does in 9, and I don't believe that the same fragmentation issues, and
thus slowdown issues, occur in X.  And no, I will not go to the effort of
proving bupkiss.  Do whatever works for you.